KJ9858 (DMNH 2217) (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as Das Goods

Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.4° N, 104.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.3° N, 79.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: FUI zone, Ludlow Member (Fort Union Formation), Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)

• 2.5m to Hell Creek-Fort Union contact datum, 1.275m to K-T boundary based on calculations in Johnson (2002)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; poorly lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the DMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Specimens located at Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Primary reference: K. R. Johnson. 2002. Megaflora of the Hell Creek and lower Fort Union Formations in the western Dakotas: Vegetational response to climate change, the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary event, and rapid marine transgression. The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the northern Great Plains: An integrated continental record of the end of the Cretaceous. 361:329-391 [S. Wing/S. Wing/K. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 25466: authorized by Kirk Johnson, entered by Michele Reynolds on 12.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Pteridopsida
 Filicales -
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetum "FU036" Linnaeus 1753 horsetail
FU036
Angiospermae
  -
"Dicotyledonae "FU035"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "FU086"" = Dicotyledoneae, "Dicotyledonae "FU087"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "FU035"" = Dicotyledoneae
FU035
"Dicotyledonae "FU086"" = Dicotyledoneae
FU086
"Dicotyledonae "FU087"" = Dicotyledoneae
FU087
 Proteales - Nelumbonaceae
Nelumbo "FU085" Adanson 1763 lotus
FU085
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanaceae "FU088" Lestiboudois 1826
FU088
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree
FU016
 Cornales - Cornaceae
Cornophyllum newberryi
(Hollick) McIver & Basinger; FU031
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Amesoneuron "FU037" Göppert 1852 palm
Hickey and Read; FU037
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Populus nebrascensis Newberry 1868 poplar
FU007
 Malvales - Sterculiaceae
 Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
Paranymphaea crassifolia Newberry 1935 water lily
(Newberry) Berry; FU001
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Glyptostrobus europaeus Brongniart 1833 Chinese swamp cypress
FU004
Magnoliopsida
  -
Quereuxia angulata Newberry 1953
FU002
Dicotylophyllum anomalum Ward 1887
FU029
Hepaticae
 Marchantiales - Marchantiaceae
Marchantia pealii liverwort
HC123